Jack Cork feels the Clarets gave a good account of themselves at the Etihad Stadium despite shipping five goals against the defending Premier League champions.

According to the 29-year-old midfielder, the 5-0 defeat wasn’t reflective of Burnley’s performance as they showed some positive signs against the league leaders.

The England international labelled the away side’s performance as compact, organised, adding that they’d kept their shape well to restrict Pep Guardiola’s men, until their hard work was unravelled by a contentious second goal.

However, a catalogue of errors from referee Jonathan Moss and his official enabled the hosts to add to Sergio Aguero’s opener after the break.

Moss changed his tune when Leroy Sane went to ground inside the box, David Silva was in an off-side position when assisting Bernardo Silva, while the ball had already gone out of play before the Portuguese midfielder converted.

“It felt like we’d played better than we had done recently,” said Cork.

“I thought we played some good stuff at times.

“It can be tough with them having a lot of the ball, but I thought we played some good stuff at times and caused them trouble at 1-0.

“There were just a few things leading up to the second goal, though we shouldn’t have stopped for the penalty call.

“It looks like the ball has gone out of play but it’s a good finish.

“There were also the two tackles that could have been yellow cards which is frustrating because if that’s us maybe it goes the other way.

“It’s one of those things. On a different day it might have gone a different way.”

He added: “We limited them to a few opportunities and if that doesn’t happen for the second goal maybe we see it out at a goal or two.